Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:32:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp6575.on.sympatico.ca> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, hoek@hwcn.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012172403.2711D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199710122117.OAA22153@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> There's always scroll-lock and dmesg (heh: "Are there no work houses,
> are there no prisons?").
You check dmesg for each and every time you boot your computer?
Indeed, you are a better man than I!
> What about the schmuck who disables his wd driver and can't figure out
> why his machine won't boot? 8-). It's a two-edged sword.
Hehe. If he disabled it he must not know what its use is. He
doesn't know its use, so a "wd0: disabled, not probed" won't save
him.
Besides, only a schmuck would take action A, which has an unknown
result, and assume that reaction C is unrelated. :) (Where A is
disabling devices he doesn't recognize and C is a missing hdd :).
--
tIM...HOEk
OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names
hoping that the resultant code will run faster.
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